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		<p>Howl: a web service for the Internet of Things</p>
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		<h2>Start using Howl now</h2>

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		  <li class="fakedl"><strong>Step 1:</strong> <a href="/Signup">Register for a Google Account</a></li>
		  <li class="fakedl"><strong>Step 2:</strong> <a href="/Signin">Sign in to Howl</a></li>
		  <li class="fakedl"><strong>Step 3:</strong> Start collecting data via email, twitter, our RESTful API</li>
		  <li class="fakedl"><strong>Step 4:</strong> Access your data here or via Web2.0 services
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		<h2>What is Howl?</h2>
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		  Howl is a web service for the Internet of Things that allows
		  you to store and retrieve physical data over the web. You can
		  communicate with Howl via our own RESTful API and scripts, or
		  via a number of web services, such as email, 
		  <a href="http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification">RSS</a>, 
		  <a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>, 
		  <a href="http://www.pachube.com">Pachube</a> and others. Howl
		  can give you scheduled reports on your data or send you an
		  alert when your data exceeds a threshold or meets some other
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		  <a href="http://your.flowingdata.com"><img src="/buttons/yfd-logo.gif" alt="YFD" height=23px></a>&nbsp;
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		<h2>Who is Howl for?</h2>

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		  <li><strong>Researchers</strong> store and share scientific data on the cloud</li>
		  <li><strong>Hobbyists</strong> log data on the web</li>
		  <li><strong>Web developers</strong> create mashups with physical data</li>
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		<h2>Who made this?</h2>
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		  Howl is part of a larger research project at
		  the <a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk">University of
			Wolverhampton</a> and is still in Beta, so please bear with us if there are problems.
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